Duke University Herbarium Fungal Collection (DUKE)
The Duke Fungal Herbarium was established by Duke mycologist Dr. Rytas Vilgalys in the early 1990's. The Herbarium consists mainly of Basidiomycete collections with special emphasis on Agaricomycetes. Specimens of Septobasidium, collected by Dr. Daniel Henk for his dissertation research, and dissertation research vouchers of truffles (Tuber) of Dr. Greg Bonito are accessioned in our holdings. Rich in new collections from Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Newfoundland and Labrador, Columbia, South Africa and the United States. Significant collections from Papua New Guinea, France, Costa Rica and China.
Curator of Fungi: Rytas Vilgalys, fungi@duke.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1231eb25-bc07-4174-9660-69fe787f1c2e
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://www.mycoportal.org/portal/content/dwca/DUKE_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/6cd25714-849f-4240-a762-ef33aa2e5db5
Collection Statistics
- 14,796 specimen records
- 10,949 (74%) georeferenced
- 4,682 (32%) with images (5,979 total images)
- 154 GenBank genetic references
- 10,213 (69%) identified to species
- 201 families
- 637 genera
- 2,365 species
- 2,402 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
